Abstract: Along to top edge of each stick of the brand-spanking-new Crucial Ballistix Tracer memory are sixteen red & green activity LED's, and an additional eight blue LED's along the bottom of the DIMM.84% Rating:

Benchmarks: Winstone 2004, Sandra 2004

Content Creation Winstone 2004 is a
system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall
performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation
applications in Windows XP.Business Winstone 2004 runs real
applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC
takes to complete these activities to produce its performance scores.

Business Winstone 2002:

AMD Athlon64 System Results

Points

Ranking

2x 512MB Corsair TwinX3200XL (200/400)

23.9

2x 512MB OCZ PC3200 Plat LTD Ed (200/400)

23.9

2x 512MB Mushkin PC3200 LII V2 (200/400)

24

2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix Tracer (200/400)

23.6

2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix Tracer (251/502)

24.8

Intel Pentium 4 System Results

2x 512MB Corsair TwinX3200XL (200/400)

18.4

2x 512MB OCZ PC3200 Plat LTD Ed (200/400)

18.3

2x 512MB Mushkin PC3200 LII V2 (200/400)

17.9

2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix Tracer (200/400)

18

2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix Tracer (262/524)

22.7

The performance of the Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC4000 RAM when overclocked on the
AMD system isn't all that much better than stock. On the Intel system, we see
a nice performance boost thanks to a much higher clock speed, and the extra bandwidth provided
by the Tracer memory.

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of
a complete system and individual components. The numbers taken though are again,
purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance. Higher numbers
represent better performance.

Sisoft Sandra
2004 Benchmark Results

Memory

Integer SSE2:

Float SSE2:

AMD Athlon64 System Results

2x 512MB Corsair TwinX1024-3200 XL
(200/400)

3025

3029

2x 512MB OCZ PC3200 Plat LTD Ed
(200/400)

3015

3033

2x 512MB Mushkin PC3200 LII V2
(200/400)

3018

3024

2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix Tracer
(200/400)

3028

3026

2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix Tracer
(251/502)

3611

3596

Intel Pentium 4 System Results

2x 512MB Corsair TwinX1024-3200 XL
(200/400)

4863

4863

2x 512MB OCZ PC3200 Plat LTD Ed
(200/400)

4836

4833

2x 512MB Mushkin PC3200 LII V2
(200/400)

4817

4834

2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix Tracer
(200/400)

4894

4992

2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix Tracer
(262/524)

5918

5907

Bandwidth
goes up nicely in Sandra's tests on both the AMD and Intel
systems thanks to overclocking.